Aesthetics and Economy
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Automation is replacing white-collar office work and non-dexterous manual work, causing major structural change in the job market. As advanced economies shift from a post-industrial to an auto-industrial model, all kinds of routine work... more
As a conceptual tool, the Artist’s Meta-Praxis depicts commonalities and amplifies profound connections between artistic action and the art of entrepreneurial action. The framework is presented as a step towards empowering arts students... more
This Chapter from 'Ends Meet' is focused on the fashion boutique as a site of cultural exchange, and more broadly on the 'aesthetic economy' of fashion. The chapter explores the ways in which commercial and semi-commercial spaces act as... more
Aesthetic theorists often interpret and understand works of art through the social and political context that creates and inspires the work. The recent economic recessions, and the accompanying austerity measures in many European... more
One route to understanding how the contemporary moving image makes sense of the current state of finance capital is to look at the emergence of neoliberalism as a political doctrine. For Foucault, this is not a phenomenon that is... more